Recent content by harristhenerd

I think Jeremy Soule's my favourite VGM composer - particularly the Elder Scrolls games and Guild Wars. Also Zelda music, the Mario Galaxy soundtracks, and the Assassin's Creed series, especially ACII.

I don't think anyone would suggest for a moment that the soundtrack to the Elder Scrolls series is actually the fifth best piece of classical music ever written - but then again, that's not what the Hall of Fame is for, in my opinion. If we're just trying to find out what the best pieces ever...

I'm not sure that's entirely fair - I'd hardly call the London Philharmonic Orchestra 'B listers', and Andrew Skeet, who conducted and arranged their albums, is obviously pretty passionate about game soundtracks, and that comes across in some of the interviews he's done about them. And...

Tires punctured. Yay for homophones!

You're absolutely fine. Your diction was fine and the words were very easy to understand, but also you spoke very idiomatically, structuring your speech like an English-speaker would. I wish English-speakers were as open to foreign languages...

This is actually a really interesting point - musically, of course, whether it's written to be performed live or not doesn't matter, but you could make the case that the essence of the music, and what we can categorize it as, is intrinsically linked to its purpose. I hadn't thought of that...

On the issue of development of music - I agree that the development of music from Baroque to Classical to Romantic is very different musically from the development of film and game soundtracks, but I would still argue that they happen for more or less the same reason - changes in overall...

I think that's a really good point - I've seen a lot of people saying thing like "If Bach/Mozart/[insert classical composer here] were alive today, they'd compose game soundtracks," and I think they're absolutely right. I think it's important to view classical music as still very much a dynamic...

I guess you're right, but you can't deny that now there is a lot more debate about classical music, and a lot more people involved in that debate, than there otherwise would be. Which can only be a good thing. (Right?)

There are actually two meanings of 'classical' relating to music - we usually differentiate between them by using a capital C for one and not the other. There's Classical music, which, you're quite right, is separate from Baroque and Romantic; the Classical period is from about 1730-1810, give...

I definitely wouldn't call film and game soundtracks 'late romantic' - they've definitely moved into a genre of their own, in my opinion. The differences in structure etc that you mentioned are partly to do with trying to fit their medium, but also, I think, to do with representing what your...

This may be true, but at the same time, it means that people who otherwise wouldn't listen to any classical music actually become engaged with it enough to want to vote in this chart. And maybe they'll become more interested in classical music generally. It certainly doesn't hurt the chances of...

In general, I don't think people were annoyed at its inclusion, and those that were formed part of a very small (and rather bigoted) minority. The question seemed to be over how and why they'd achieved the places they had - I don't think anyone would suggest that the Final Fantasy soundtrack was...

Obviously there's a difference between programme and absolute - but you can't separate video game music from other programmatic forms, and stuff like Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition have been in the chart every year. I myself wrote an academic essay in school comparing Pictures with the...

So in the UK, there's this classical music radio station called Classic FM. Every year, it has a huge poll called the 'Hall of Fame' in which people vote for their 3 favourite pieces of classical music and they publish the top 300 chart. For the last couple of years, video game soundtracks...